Brian Anderson Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

I'm managing a high performing and customer service oriented team of ETL and BI developers and DBA's. This role includes designing and implementing our cloud strategy as well as updating our on premise software and hardware. Implemented Tableau as a BI tool for the entire organization with emphasis on making sure we build our data sources correctly to ensure good performance for the long term. Reduced our SQL Servers footprint by reviewing usage and working with developers and business users to shut down unused servers.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Working with a team of full time employees and contractors to develop a long term data platform for all of UCare's reporting and integration needs. This includes working with business users across the organization to understand their needs and help drive the solutions that meet those needs with the right technology and solutions.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

• Lead a team that provide BI, data warehouse, integration, reporting, and application solutions to all facets of our business• Foster a strong collaborative and innovative environment to help drive solutions that reduce costs and streamline operations• Challenged the team with timelines and weekly releases in an agile/iterative environment.• Developed and maintain strong relationships with business partners that have allowed us to have effective and meaningful collaboration• Consistently drive the team to deliver on projects while meeting timeline commitments and priorities for multiple business units• Manage over 4 million dollar hardware, software, and consulting budgets across all areas of responsibility• Implemented a BI solution to provide an analytical platform to forecast trends and understand our business model

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

• Implemented a data warehouse solution that combined multiple subject areas to allow business users to get a complete picture of company performance• Created and standardized support process for all critical applications to provide 24x7 support for business users.• Reduced costs by removing consultant supported platforms and building a consolidated development and production environment

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

• Reduced department costs by building a team of employees to replace contractors• Implemented integrations and reports that reduced operational time and provided real time updates

Toronto, On, Ca

• Responsible for managing a global team of 30 developers across multiple technologies (SAP Business Objects, Oracle BI, Informatica, Informatica MDM, Archiving - ILM, Exalytics) to deliver reporting and integration solutions. • Developed and maintain strong relationships with business partners that have allowed us to have effective and meaningful collaboration.• Consistently drive the team to deliver on projects while meeting timeline commitments and priorities for multiple business units. • Provide technical guidance and governance to help determine the best long-term solutions while still meeting the goals of the request.• Collaborate with multiple technology teams to provide a single point of contact and support for our consumers. • Manage hardware, software, and consulting budgets as well as any charge-back allocation and resourcing.

Toronto, On, Ca

• Took over an unhappy team with significant turnover and turned it into a cohesive and productive team with low turnover by using Agile development methodologies to drive results.• Reduce the support costs from two full time people to one person part-time by building better solutions that had fewer issues and better support tools.• Represented multiple teams and technologies for large integration projects• Worked with multiple project managers on multiple releases to coordinate our changes. • Implemented a long awaited auditing process that significantly reduced our integration issues

Toronto, On, Ca

• Developed multiple enhancements for an external facing website using Java, JSF, Hibernate, and Oracle technologies. • Worked with the full development life cycle using Agile methodologies and worked with the business uses directly.

Toronto, On, Ca

• Led a team of developers for the initial rollout of Siebel. • Worked with the business throughout the design process to gather requirements and translated those requirements into technical specifications. • Led the development of the Siebel interfaces and worked through any issues in a timely manner to deliver the results on time and within budget.

Toronto, On, Ca

• Developed an internal sales reporting system in XML, ASP, and Visual Basic. This allowed the sales reps to enter their orders quicker and allowed the managers better visibility into how divisions, regions, and individual reps were performing.• Recommended, purchased, and developed interfaces for online chat and knowledgebase solutions

Worked as a project based consultant helping clients build solutions in .NET, JSP, JSF and other technologies.

Toronto, On, Ca

Provided technical consulting on multiple projects and created training curriculum for other developers.

Managed a network that ran everything from financial reporting software to drill presses. Upgraded the internal system software from multiple separate systems into one cohesive ERP system that supported the business process from the start to finish (order intake, delivery/build phases, invoicing)

Developed software for nursing homes. Took the initiative of becoming a Novell Certified Network Engineer. Using this knowledge, I helped port our original product that was written for Unix systems to the Windows platform running on Novell.

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

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